Canale del Forno

The few tributary valleys of the great Fiumara Saraceno having some interest to canyoneer offer technically simple itineraries that develop in a
beautiful, special and absolutely non-trivial environment. It is worth ging through them, at least once, maybe beginning with Canale del Forno, in
spring or in a rainy season, when the water jets of the falls have more energy.

I remember ...

I did the first canyoning descent of Canale del Forno with an unusually numerous team, made of people
(Armando Nuzzone, Tonino Pagliaro, Roberto Recchioni, Stefano Rossi)
I had involved in a little exploration campaign of Saraceno's tributaries. Their vertical drop and length made them very attractive,
but we had to discover they had only a little interest, very much easier than I had thought.
The exploration campaign was overall disappointing, and even the weather conditions were, allowing us to do only two descents (one and a half, to
say the truth!).

For years I kept the memory of Canale del Forno with the other uninteresting streams that I had explored
(at that time I didn't know it had been explored yet by Nino Larocca and Micuzzo Napoli, bottom-up, without leaving any trace).
One day, however, other canyoneers re-explored the Canale del Forno obtaining an opposite, enthusiastic impression.
Their photographs on facebook, awakened in me the desire to descend the Canale again. I waited for the right chance and I did it.
That time I had no "exploration performance anxiety", and the Forno gave me a nice canyoning trail, even demanding, in an environment
of absolute beauty.